Integrating animation artists into the animation design of social robots an open-source robot animation software

Abstract

Movements are an important part of robot design and we need dedicated tools to design them. As previous research has shown, 3D animation techniques are of great use to animate a robot. However, most robots don't benefit from an animation tool and therefore from animation artists knowledge. We present an open-source robot animation software to address this issue and describe some principles for designing a robot animation software derived from the specificity of robot as a medium.